[split] The Zipf law and the Voynich Manuscript

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You could say that a different process was used for the labels.  But why would someone do that?  Was someone in the 15th century aware of Zipf's law and where it should and should not apply in meaningful texts?

Why would someone do that? Here's one possible reason...

A label next to a drawing is too easy to decode. It's a clue if there's an underlying cipher. It's the first thing most people try to decode. If the creator was aware of this then maybe the VMS "labels" were created with some of the same elements, but in a different way (or in a meaningless way, but hopefully just in a different way).


If however, the text is meaningful and the labels are constructed the same way (I hate to say encoded), then the person creating them had great confidence in the system.